Ice-creeper.



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W. M. HUGHES.

ICE CREEPER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-.20. l9l5.

Patented Oct. 31, 1916.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. HUGHES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF FIFTY ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO JOHN A. CAMERON AND TWENTY-FIVE ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO JOHN R. HUGHES,

BOTH OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ICE-CREEPER.

Application filed September 20, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM M. Huorins, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Creepers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ice creepers which are removably attachable to the soles of boots and shoes. And the object of this invention is to obtain a device of the character named which is easily attachable to and removable from the sole of a boot or shoe, which is economically made, not liable to break or get out of order and which may be used for advertising purposes.

To those familiar with the art it is well known that means are often employed to prevent the slipping of a boot or shoe on ice or icy pavements and that said means are frequently embodied in devices which are to be permitted to remain on the sole of a boot or shoe in walking upon rugs, carpets or even bare floors. And this invention seeks to obtain a device of spring material adapted to be firmly held on the sole of a boot or shoe while, and so long as desired, the hold ing means being the peculiar shape of the device coupled with the resilience of the material of which the device is made.

In the drawing Figure l is a perspective view of a shoe showing the sole thereof, and a device embodying this invention attached in place on said sole. Fig. 2, is a top plan view of a blank from which the device is made or formed up. Fig. 3, is a top plan view of a device embodying the invention. Fig. 4, is an end view of the device illustrated in Fig. 3. Fig. 5, is a top plan view of a modified form of the device embodying the invention.

A reference character applied to designate a given part indicates said part throughout the several figures of the drawing wherever the same appears.

A designates an illustration of a shoe, B indicates the sole of said shoe and O the heel.

D, (Fig. 2), is a blank from which a device embodying this invention may be formed up. Blank D comprises the middle or body portion (Z, and the ribbon portions (Z Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1916.

Serial No. 51,630.

E designate cuts between the body portions (Z and the ribbon portions (Z and 6 represent broken lines on which the ribbon portions (Z are bent up into a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the body portion in making the device.

F are teeth on the outer edge of the ribbon portion (Z whereby a part of said ribbon portions (lettered H in Figs. 3, 4 and 5) are in plane which are substantially parallel to the body portions d.

I and J are additional bends in the ribbon portions (Z whereby grasping ends which are lettered K in Fig. 1, are obtained. The grasping ends K are engageable with the edges of the sole of a boot or shoe in a manner which is well illustrated in said Fig; 1. In the modification illustrated in Fig. 5, the body portion, lettered (Z in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, is made much smaller and is lettered (F. In other respects the foregoing description of the device is the same.

The body portion cl may be used for advertising purposes. To place the device on the sole of a shoe, the ends K adjacent to the toe are (preferably) brought into engagement with the edge of the sole and to make this engagement said ends may be slid on to the soles of the shoe; afterward the ends nearest the heel of the shoe are sprung into place. To take the device off the shoe a reverse operation is made.

I claim An ice creeper comprising ribbons of resilient material provided with teeth on one edge thereof, and a body member integral with and joining said ribbons, the ends of said ribbons provided with integral hooks adapted to engage with the edges of a sole of a shoe and said ribbons provided between the toothed portions and the hooks with bends additional to the bends forming said hooks, said additional bends arranged so that the toothed portions of said ribbons, project in opposite directions from said hooks.

S. M. MYERS, CHARLES TURNER BROWN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

